I completelty agree, and your use of Sedgwick's notion of homosociality is on the mark. Despite the film's banal attempts to bring AIDS into the lives of middle America, everything is set up to ensure the traditonal family wins out. Linda Singer (Erotic Welfare) has aptly called this the repackaging of the nuclear family as a "prophylactic social device," the nuclear family as the "safest sex around." which implies that,as she says, "homosexuality is itself unsafe." Certainly one does not want to argue that we should simply be thankful Hollywood has made this film. There are more complex subtexts operating that need to be adressed. Kyle Mechar McGill University, Montreal